ChromeOS How-To

Hello all, 

It took me long enough to figure out how to download and run ChromeOS from a USB from Windows, so I thought I'd help you all out. Get a USB flash drive (2+ GB). Download Vanilla by Hexxeh (google it, he doesn't like people linking to it)--get the latest nightly build for USB. Now download something to extract tar.gz files like PeaZip here. Extract the OS to a folder you can find easily (you may have to do this twice). When you see the .img file, use Win32 Disk Imager to get it downloaded onto your USB (super easy; but first you may need to download some other shit as detailed on that page). Is that step done? 

Great job! you now have a ChromeOS USB. Turn off your computer, and in the first screen you see it should tell you "Push F* (in my case F2) for setup". You want to go to Boot and change the priorities to be USB (may need to do this in more than one place). Now save and continue (in my case F10); let your computer load, and viola! Follow a few simple steps and you have a chromebook.